How's BushCo doing on stopping the illegal sex trade and human slavery?

[mistertrickster]

Remember that odd inclusion in the State of the Union?

So, George, freed any sex slaves lately?

I think your brother Neil has some personal experience along those lines--see the last Top Ten Idiots for details . . .

[RobertSeattle]

1. What would Neil Bush do for fun then?

:evilgrin:

[MrBenchley]

2. I was going to say

"He's keeping Neil at home..."

[redqueen]

3. God what an awful topic

He mouthed off about it... I too would like to see what ACTIONS he's taken.

This issue, like many others, just keeps getting swept under the rug. :(

[sistersofmercy]

8. Yes and sadly not many here seem to care about it either!!!

:shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

[DemoTex]

4. I thought Neil was Ambassador-at-Large (or is it Without Portfolio?) ...

... to Bu$hco's Illegal Sex Trade and Human Slavery Initiative. Might as well be.

[sistersofmercy]

5. There were reports of one bust in Florida I believe shortly after the

useless UN speech. However the problem with slave trade around the world is a major international problem, an estimated twenty-seven million people which mostly involves women and children, some as young as four years old working in sweatshops etc. There is a state department list which reveals countries known to have trafficked a hundred human beings or more last year. Of course, the US and most of its allies are on the list and oddly enough Iraq was not.

[papau]

6. Bush's priv. military sex trade scandaled Dyncorp is hired into Iraq

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1103566,00.htmlSpecial investigation

Private corporations ...are now the second biggest contributor to coalition forces in Iraq after the Pentagon, a Guardian investigation has established. While the official coalition figures list the British as the second largest contingent with around 9,900 troops, they are narrowly outnumbered by the 10,000 private military contractors now on the ground.

<snip>(Legal problems include)... if an American GI draws and uses his weapon in an off-duty bar brawl, he will be subject to the US judicial military code. If an American guard employed by the US company ITT in Tuzla does the same, he answers to Bosnian law. By definition these companies are frequently operating in "failed states" where national law is notional. The risk is the employees can literally get away with murder.

Or lesser, but appalling crimes. Dyncorp, for example, a Pentagon favourite, has the contract worth tens of millions of dollars to train an Iraqi police force. It also won the contracts to train the Bosnian police and was implicated in a grim sex slavery scandal, with its employees accused of rape and the buying and selling of girls as young as 12. A number of employees were fired, but never prosecuted. The only court cases to result involved the two whistleblowers who exposed the episode and were sacked.

"Dyncorp should never have been awarded the Iraqi police contract," said Madeleine Rees, the chief UN human rights officer in Sarajevo.

Of the two court cases, one US police officer working for Dyncorp in Bosnia, Kathryn Bolkovac, won her suit for wrongful dismissal. The other involving a mechanic, Ben Johnston, was settled out of court. Mr Johnston's suit against Dyncorp charged that he "witnessed co-workers and supervisors literally buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees would brag about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they had purchased".

<snip>

[tom_paine]

7. Yawn. Just another Bushevik lie

[Festivito]

9. All local investigations go through federal government.

That way, from a centralized Bush controlled location the Bush admins can squash investigations or warn Neil and/or buddies before doors are kicked open.

Remember, whatever good things Republicans say they will do, the opposite of what they said will be indicated by the funding.

[arewethereyet]

10. must be cured, no more word of it

I can only assume that the FBI has accomplished this mission !

[solinvictus]

11. Israel

Israel is big into importing Eastern European women under false pretences to place them in brothels. But of course, they're an ally, so there won't be too much of a stink raised.

[sistersofmercy]

14. That's exacltly right, unfortunately! n/t

[ComerPerro]

12. He doesn't care

Humans are just raw materials to Republicans

[Robin Hood]

13. Human slavery is alive and well here in the good old USA.

I assume that the illegal sex trade is doing a gang bang business as well.